The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head? Why have no tail to speak of?

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.